Hymn 1:23. [Supplement.]
A hopeful youth falling short of heaven, Mark 10. 21.

1 Must all the charms of nature then
So hopeless to salvation prove? 
Can hell demand, can heaven condemn
The man whom Jesus deigns to love?

2 The man who sought the ways of truth, Paid friends and neighbours all their due, (A modest, sober, lovely youth) And thought he wanted nothing now.

3 But mark the change! thus spake the Lord, “Come, part with earth for heaven to-day,” The youth astonish’d at the word, In silent sadness went his way.

4 Poor virtues that he boasted so,
This test unable to endure;
Let Christ, and grace, and glory go
To make his land and money sure.

5 Ah foolish choice of treasures here! 
Ah fatal love of tempting gold! 
Must this base world be bought so dear? 
Are life and heaven so cheaply sold?

6 In vain the charms of nature shine,
If this vile passion govern me: 
Transform my soul, O love divine,
And make me part with all for thee.

Hymn 1:24. 
The rich sinner dying, Psalm 49. 6 9.  Eccl. 8. 8. 
Job 3. 14 15.

1 In vain the wealthy mortals toil,
And heap their shining dust in vain,
Look down and scorn the humble poor,
And boast their lofty hills of gain.

2 Their golden cordials cannot ease
Their pained hearts or aching heads,
Nor fright nor bribe approaching death
From glittering roofs and downy beds.

3 The lingering, the unwilling soul
The dismal summons must obey,
And bid a long a sad farewell
To the pale lump of lifeless clay.

4 Thence they are huddled to the grave, Where kings and slaves have equal thrones; Their bones without distinction lie Amongst the heap of meaner bones.

The rest referred to Psalm 49.

Hymn 1:25. 
A vision of the Lamb, Rev 5. 6-9.

1 All mortal vanities, be gone,
Nor tempt my eyes, nor tire my ears,
Behold amidst th’ eternal throne
A vision of the Lamb appears.

2[Glory his fleecy robe adorns, Mark’d with the bloody death he bore; Seven are his eyes, and seven his horns, To speak his wisdom and his power.

3 Lo, he receives a sealed book
From him that sits upon the throne: 
Jesus, my Lord, prevails to look
On dark decrees, and things unknown.]

4 All the assembling saints around
Fall worshipping before the Lamb,
And in new songs of gospel-sound
Address their honours to his name,

5 The joy, the shout, the harmony
Flies o’er the everlasting hills,
“Worthy art thou alone,” they cry,
“To read the book, to loose the seals.”]

6 Our voices join the heavenly strain,
And with transporting pleasure sing,
“Worthy the Lamb that once was slain,
“To be our teacher and our king!”

7 His words of prophecy reveal
Eternal counsels, deep designs;
His grace and vengeance shall fulfil
The peaceful and the dreadful lines.